What if, like many crises before it, the Covid-19 pandemic was conducive to artistic creation?
All around the world, in the streets of Gaza or Dublin, in Jakarta or New York, many
street artists
are expressing their views on the pandemic.
Whether they are tributes, expressions of concern, sadness or hope, their creations testify to their feelings exacerbated by the pandemic.
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Some paintings pay homage to hospital staff, such as this gigantic portrait of a masked woman wearing a blue blouse, visible on the facade of a building in Manchester in Great Britain, or the drawing of this caregiver facing us, forming a heart with her fingers. , on a Dublin wall. Some works even represent them as true fictional heroes, such as this silhouette of a female doctor evoking the character of
Wonder Woman
, wearing a mask in the colors of Italy on a wall in Codogno in Lombardy. In Jakarta, Indonesia, several murals promote awareness of the epidemic and the maintenance of barrier gestures.
Other paintings are more serious.
They describe an agonizing and even terrifying daily life, as for example in New York where the message in red letters "
Don't be afraid of Covid
"
cohabits
with a drawing painted in black representing death with his great scythe.
In Gaza, another artist drew two caregivers hugging and crying on the streets of the city.
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The controversies and criticisms are not absent on the large frescoes that cover the facades.
In Greece, on a street in Athens, visual artist Hambas painted a tearful child's face with a mask shaped like a hundred-dollar banknote over its mouth, seeming to evoke a sacrificed youth.
But humor and hope are also part of these works.
In the streets of Jakarta many colorful paintings bloom on the walls evoking for example vaccination with a huge syringe brandished by the doctors like an arrow reaching its goal.
Find their creations in images above.